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CAROLINE UMNIT Z, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented. Dec. 3, 1907.

Application filed. February 20. 1907. Serial No. 358.378.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CAROLINE UMNITZ, a

a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, which improvements are fully set forth in the following specification.

This invention relates to improvements in devices of that class commonly known as hooks and eyes, the same being quite extensively availed of for fastening purposes in connection with articles of wearing apparel, and the like.

The object of this invention is to provide a device of the character above indicated, which shall be simple and inexpensive as regards construction; durable, efficient and reliable in practical service; which shall embody features of construction whereby all tendency, in the practical operation of the device, to a wearing efiect on the material, as thread, made use of in fastening the hook proper of the device to a garment, or the like, shall be obviated, and whereby a peculiarly serviceable distribution of such fastening material, with respect to said hook, and in the operation of fastening the same to a garment, or the like, shall be insured; which shall be convenient in its application to practical purposes, and which shall possess certain well-defined advantages over prior analogous devices.

The invention consists in the novel combinations, details and arts whereby, together with the novel re ative disposition of said parts, the attainment of the foregoing object is rendered practicable, all of which will be more specifically referred to hereinafter and set forth in the appended claims.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein like referloops, said primary and secondary fasteningloops occupying one and the same plane.

In practice, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, I form the hook proper of my improved hook and eye, from a suitable length of wire of proper temper, bending and returning the same to form the usual bill 2, then jointly bending the opposing members 3, 4, of said bill somewhat, as indicated at 2, whereupon one of said members, as 3, is bent and turned to form at the forward end of the hook proper, and at one side of the bill 2, a secondary fastening-loop 5, said member 3 being then projected rearwardly of the hook proper, beneath the bill 2 and somewhat beyond its tip, and terminated in a primary fastening-loop 6; while the other of said members, as 4, is correspondingly bent and turned to form at the forward end of said hook proper, at the opposite side of the bill 2 and in opposition to the loop 5, an additional secondary fasteningloop 7, said member 4 being then projected rearwardly of the hook proper, beneath the bill 2 and somewhat beyond its tip, and then bent and returned to form an additional primary, fastening-loop 8, in opposition to the loop 6, and an intermediate member 9, the latter extending forwardly of the hook roper, between the members 3 and 4, and beneath the bill 2, being humped or upwardly and downwardly turned at said bill,

and as denoted by the numeral 10, and returned somewhat upwardly from the nose of the hook proper, to form an elastic eye-retaining stem 11, whose free end normally rests upon and elastically engages the hump 10 of the member 9.

It will be observed that my improved hook for a hook and eye is formed wholly from a single length of Wire, and as a completed structure, the res ective primary and secondary fasteningoops aforenamed thereof occupy substantially one and the same plane.

The usual eye 12 is employed in conjunction with my improved hook, in the usual and well known manner, the free end of the stem 11 being momentarily displaced from the hump 10, and against its own elasticity, during the operation of passing the eye 12 in either direction between the hump 10 and the bill 2, for the engagement or disengagement of said eye by the hook proper, aforenamed; but in many prior analogous devices the fastening material, as thread, and as ordinarily used, traverses the members 3 and 4 crosswise, forwardly of the hump 10, for securing the hook proper to a garment or the like; and this, said fastening material, is subjected, when thus used, to a serious wearing efiect, since it largely lies in the path of limited movement which the eye 12 is accorded, when engaged by the hook proper of the device as a whole, in the usual manner.

I overcome the foregoing objectionable features of prior analogous devices, by providing my improved hook with the fastening-loops 5 and 7, in conjunction with each of which fastening material, as thread, may be used in securing the forward portion of said hook proper to a garment, or the like, and whereby the fastening material thus employed is taken out of the reach of the eye 12, when engaged by said hook, said fastening material being, accordingly, relieved from objectionable wearing effect such as above alluded to, in the practical operation of the device as a Whole, and the fastening of the device, particularly its forward portion, being much more serviceably accomplished than in many prior analogous devices.

It will be seen that my improved device is particularly well adapted for the purposes for which it is intended; and further that the same may be modified to some extent, particularly as regards the details of the general construction involved in the formation of the respective fastening-loops 5 and 7, without departure from the spirit and principle of my invention.

I claim:

A hook for a hook and eye formed from a single length of wire, and comprising a bill consisting of opposing members, jointly bent at the shank of said bill, and each thereat turned or bent to form opposing, secondary fastening-loops, at the forward end of the hook proper and at opposite sides of said bill, one of said members being projected rearwardly of the hook proper, beneath said bill, and terminated in a primary fasteningloop, and the other being projected rearwardly of said hook, beneath said bill, bent to form an additional primary fasteningloop, in opposition to the aforenamed primary fastening-loop, and from thence returned to form an intermediate member, the latter projecting forwardly of the hook proper, provided with a hump, and terminating in an upwardly projecting, elastic eye-retaining stem, having its free end normally in engagement with the hump aforenamed of said intermediate member, and said primary and secondary fastening-loops being all arranged in substantially one and the same plane, substantially as herein specified.

CAROLINE U MNITZ. 

